Simonyi was an early executive at Microsoft who is largely credited with the company's Office suite, including Word and Excel.

9. Charles Simonyi (left)

Net worth: $2.6 billion

Simonyi was an early executive at Microsoft who is largely credited with the company's Office suite, including Word and Excel.

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8. Howard Schultz

Net worth: $2.9 billion

Schultz didn't start the original Starbucks Coffee Company, but it was while working there that he came up with the idea (inspired by what he saw in Italy) to create his version of the coffee shop and cafe, serving espresso and other coffees, teas and snacks. He later bought the Starbucks name and thus was born the Starbucks Corporation and the American coffee revolution. He lives in Madison Park.

Fisher started Fisher Investments in 1979 with just $250, according to Forbes. Since then, he has become something of a de facto investment guru, writing a regular column in Forbes for more than 30 years, several books, and of course, keeping his firm going strong. He lives in Camas, Washington.

Forbes recently published its annual list of America's richest families and more than a couple are from Seattle and the greater Northwest. Click through this slideshow to see which Northwest families made the list and then see the top 10 richest families in the U.S.

The Weyerhaeuser family

Timber baron Frederick Weyerhaeuser, pictured, started his fortune 1900 with 15 partners and 900,000 acres of timberland. Since then, the company has made its mark in the forestry industry and beyond.

Timber company Weyerhaeuser, based in Federal Way, now controls 7 million acres of land in America. Forbes ranked the Weyerhaeusers as the country's 149th richest family.

Forbes recently published its annual list of America's richest families and more than a couple are from Seattle and the greater Northwest. Click through this slideshow to see which Northwest families made the

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company houses at Vail, Wash. Weyerhaeuser operated three camps out of Vail, a community southeast of Olympia, starting in 1928.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company houses at Vail, Wash. Weyerhaeuser operated three camps out of Vail, a community southeast of Olympia, starting in 1928.

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The Reed family

When Mark Reed married into the Simpson family in 1901, the Reeds began their control of the Simpson Logging Company, which is now part of the group known as Simpson Investment Company. The forestry-products company, in Tacoma, is the fifth-largest landowner in the country. The Reed family is tied for the 149th richest family in the U.S.

The Vancouver, Washington-based Colson family owes its riches to the senior living business. William E. Colson and his father Hugh Colson founded Holiday Retirement Corporation in 1971, and by 2007, the company was the world's largest owner and manager of senior housing. The family sold Holiday in 2007 and has since reinvested in Hawthorn Retirement Group. The family is tied for 149th richest in the U.S.

Net worth: $1.7 billion.

Estimated number of family members: 3.

Pictured: A view from Marina Park in Vancouver, Washington. (No picture of the family was available.)

Gertrude Boyle, pictured, is the board chairwoman for Columbia Sportswear, a company her parents started after fleeing Nazi Germany, Forbes reported. Her son Tim Boyle runs the Portland, Oregon-based company. The Boyles are Forbes' 96th richest family in America.

John Nordstrom opened the first Nordstrom store - a shoe shop – in downtown Seattle in 1901. Since then, it has become a major department store chain with $12.5 billion in annual sales (including Nordstrom Rack), according to Forbes.

John Elroy McCaw founded and ran a cable TV company in the 1960s. After his death, his sons, led by Craig McCaw, turned it into McCaw Cellular, which the family sold to AT&T for $12.6 billion in 1994. Craig McCaw, who lives in Hunts Point, also started Clearwire.

Total net worth: $4.6 billion.

Estimated number of family members: 5.

Craig McCaw is pictured with wife Susan Rasinski McCaw and their kids.

Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst Sr., third from right, put his name on the masthead of the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, starting would become the Hearst media empire of newspapers, magazines and TV channel investments.

The company bought the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1921, and still owns the online-only version of the newspaper, seattlepi.com.

Based in McLean, Virginia, Mars is the largest candy company in the world. But did you know the company was founded in Tacoma by Frank Mars in 1911? The company invented the malt-flavored nougat that became the core of Milky Ways and Snickers, and later came up with M&Ms. - Forbes

The Koch family business was started by Fred Sr. with refineries in 1930s, but eventually, sons William and Frederick Koch sold out of the business, leaving Charles and David in charge of the conglomerate in 1983. Koch Industries is now the world's second-largest private company, just behind Cargill. -Forbes

The company, founded by brothers Sam and James "Bud" Walton in 1962, has become the world's largest retailer with $486 billion in revenue last year. Today, six members of the family own 54 percent of the shares in the company. -Forbes

The richest among them are, after all, still billionaires, still men, and still more powerful than any of us could even comprehend.

But their portfolios have seen the effects of a turbulent week on Wall Street. By the end of the day Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 400 points for the day, bringing the week's decline to more than 1,400 points.

The surge downward came as investors feared a trade war with China in the wake of President Donald Trump on Thursday signing an order to place tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, remained the richest person in the world, with his net worth tipping over $100 billion earlier this year and continuing to climb. Even after losing $3.1 billion from Thursday to Friday, he's still worth a staggering $124.8 billion.

Others lost tens of millions or more, but when you're worth Billions (yes, with a capital "B"), who's counting?